Microsoft has released a great similar tool, SyncToy. I love it. ;- ) Got backups everywhere....
Art On 1/30/07, Steve Cavanaugh <scavanaugh at nat-seattle.com> wrote: > You've probably lost your files for good. Unless you specifically set > up an alternate location for backup files, there isn't an automatic > feature to make backups. > > This is a good time to point out that there are some great utilities out > there that help in this regard. I use a free one called Karen's > Replicator (http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp) It > makes backups from whatever folder structure I want, to whatever folder > structure I want, on the schedule I set. All of my work has three > copies, one on my machine, one on the file server, and one on a backup > server, and all of this happens behind the scenes without any manual > intervention by me. This has really saved my butt a few times! > > > Steve Cavanaugh > Sr. Technical Writer > NAT Seattle Inc. > > -----Original Message----- > From: framers-bounces+scavanaugh=nat-seattle.com at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces+scavanaugh=nat-seattle.com at lists.frameusers.com] > On Behalf Of Michael.Long at thomson.com > Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 7:56 AM > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: Disk vs memory > > All, > > My associate and I have just discovered that all our work in FrameMaker > yesterday is likely lost. The network people were updating servers > yesterday and unknowingly lost our files and probably others. Can anyone > tell if and where I can find those files on our C drives, which I assume > is the "disk" referred to in Frame doc? > > I recall and find references in Frame doc to the interaction between > computer memory and disk, which suggests that copies of all saves are > stored on C. But I find no information identifying a location on the > disk that files are saved to. A search of C for the .fm files didn't > turn up the targets. > > Tips are welcome--the sooner the better. > > Thanks, > Mike > > > Mike Long > Team Leader, User Documentation > Thomson Medstat > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as scavanaugh at nat-seattle.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/scavanaugh%40nat-sea > ttle.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > > _______________________________________________ -- Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358
